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Carl Benjamin Boyer

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Gray, Jeremy (2016) "Histories of Modern Mathematics in English in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s" in Remmert, Volker R.; Schneider, Martina; and Kragh Sørensen, Henrik (eds.)
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In 1978, Boyer's widow, the former Marjorie Duncan Nice, a professor of history, established the Carl B. Boyer Memorial Prize, to be awarded annually to a
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to further his work in the history of science. In particular, the grant made reference to "the history of the theory of the rainbow".
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Catching up with the Vision: Essays on the Occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the History of Science Society
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of Columbia University, Boyer was instrumental in the 1953 founding of the Metropolitan New York Section of the
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from 1952 until his death, although he had begun tutoring and teaching at Brooklyn College in 1928.
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in Mathematics from Columbia University in 1939. He was a full professor of Mathematics at the
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International Congress of Mathematicians, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Retrieved on 2009-02-20.
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Hafner Publishing Company, New York, ed. Dover 1959. Retrieved on 2010-03-30.
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undergraduate for the best essay on a scientific or mathematical topic.
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Writing the history of mathematics: its historical development
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Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries
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The history of the calculus and its conceptual development
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The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development
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Boyer, Carl B. (August 30–September 6, 1950). Lecture:
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Dauben, Joseph Warren and Scriba, Christoph J. (2002)
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Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
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Carl Boyer

Hellertown, Pennsylvania
New York City
mathematics
David Foster Wallace
Gibbon
math history
valedictorian
high school
B.A.
Columbia College
M.A.
Ph.D.
City University of New York
Brooklyn College
Carolyn Eisele
Hunter College
C. Doris Hellman
Pratt Institute
Queens College
Lynn Thorndike
History of Science Society
Guggenheim Fellowship
Scripta Mathematica
heart attack
Columbia University


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